Conservatism is more candid to behold another's worth; reform more disposed to maintain and increase its own.

  • -- Ralph Waldo Emerson 拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生

保守主义更能坦率地看到别人的价值;改革更倾向于保持和增加自己的影响力。

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A loyal liberal can get away with anything with other liberals, as long as that loyal liberal is liberal and attacks conservatives left and right, spouts the right words, they get away with anything.

一个忠诚的自由主义者可以与其他自由主义者为所欲为,只要这个忠诚的自由主义者是自由主义者,攻击保守派的左右派,说出正确的话,他们就可以为所欲为。

The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right -- it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.

新政治的希望不在于形成左翼对右翼的回应——而在于拒绝传统的政治类别。

We are reformers in spring and summer; in autumn and winter, we stand by the old; reformers in the morning, conservers at night.

春天和夏天,我们是改革者;在秋天和冬天,我们站在老;早上是改革者,晚上是服务器。

Sometimes we come into a person’s life not to make them love us but to let them feel that they’re so much worth loving for.

有时候,我们走进一个人的生活,不是为了让他们爱我们,而是让他们觉得自己值得被爱。

This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him.

这是对一个绅士的最后考验:他对那些对他毫无价值的人的尊重。